Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-23
EXIT SOCIALISTS.
PECULIAR SPORADIC ATTACK
OF CHIN CHOLERA.
The Editor Of the Milwaukee "Daily
Labor Review" Rises to FIX yplain.
Exposing the Politics Of
the X. Of l.. Bosses.
"Grcat" Parties

The coc~thes lOQuendi, or chin
cholera, with which Terrence V.
powderly is at present so seriously
aIlllcted--he usually has his worst
attacks once year during the heated
term just prior to the election of
delegates to the e. A.-seems to be
catching. Or it may be owing to
malarial influence; possibly even to
the old fashioned and therefore un.
sanitary plumbing in the Orders
''palaco" at Philadelphia, that has
prostrated all the other general Off
GERS with the same cruel nervo us
disorder. From the way they all
take on about rum, radicalism and
rebellion, u fellow at a distance
might be excused for assuming that
the whole gang had 'em again, were
it not for the fact that every mothers
son of 'em swore at Richmond by the
great horn spoon not to take another
nip for year.
While | feel sorry for these poor
invalids, | cannot but rejoice at their
recurrcnt attacks of wood-purging,
for it is thus-all beknownst to
themselvcs-that the truth will out.
Thus Harry Vrooman has just been
informed that "thc officers of the
Knights of Labor would not tolerate
Socialist or any other separate par
ty within their ranks; and that they
intended to look only to the two
GREAT parties for candidate who
has the interest of the laboring class
es at heart"
There you have it, fatty opposed
to Independent political action
which necessarily must be "Sociais-
tic' since it is neither "repudem"
nor "demopub." Well if that is to
be the test of membership at Mime
apolis, Milwaukoe's delegation had
better remain at home. If beer be
the true cause and ''pauper immi-
grafton" the sole consequential ag-
gravatlon of poverty; if the evils of
landlordism, monopolism and capi-
talism may be safely left to the ten
der mercies of the "two GREAT
parties for reparation and abolition,
then us 'uns might as well 60 a
fshin'.
1t is an open question whether
final rupture between the monopoly
tools and fools on one hand, and the
men of sincere convictions and c0ur-
ageous actions on the other can be
much longer STAYED off. 1t is the
latter who have been patient and
fobearlng almost beyond endurance.
But compromise except in non-essen-
tials has at last come to be out of the
question. Our ultimatum to all
whom it may concern is simply this:
|. Each craft or trades-group to be the
arbiter of its own affairs. but having
national organization in practical affili-
alton with all other crafts and trades.
2, Absolute freedom Of speech and of
fraternizing in and outside of the order
for the purpose of lawful agitation,
education and organization under
whatever name and style.
3, Independent political action by new
party composed of the greenback, So
cialistic, Union and United Labor fac
tions against the land, transportation
money and wage-monopolies.
What's the use of fooling with
these people and longer? Let the
Knights of Labor honor themselves
and elect an Executive Board COM
posed of live, progressive men who
are honest enough to advocate and
vote agai'ast the "two great parties
Of Doodle and bluster.
YANKEE DUCKS.